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Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Originally Posted by GoRocket

People can say what they want about overbidding for the players, at least with the Mets they only overbid with cash and not prospects/players.

Minaya has been given a blank checkbook, and he's writing checks. But hopefully, he's not done yet, because he needs to address his bullpen in a big way. Glavine, Pedro, and Trachsel are not going to go way deep into games, and the Mets still have to figure out how to get through the 7th and 8th innings. They also have to keep their fingers crossed that Looper can have another effective year as closer.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Originally Posted by TommyK8

Minaya has been given a blank checkbook, and he's writing checks. But hopefully, he's not done yet, because he needs to address his bullpen in a big way. Glavine, Pedro, and Trachsel are not going to go way deep into games, and the Mets still have to figure out how to get through the 7th and 8th innings. They also have to keep their fingers crossed that Looper can have another effective year as closer.

That, and I expect Carlos Delgado to be at first next year for the Mets. Their bullpen is very weak.

SJW - bad attempt at insulting people that care about other's rights and not just their own.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Originally Posted by GoRocket

Adding Pedro and Beltran is by far, by far more impressive than what the Yanks did. Mets got those players for cash and no players, we had to trade our young pitcher and two prospects to get a 41 year old pitcher and then signed two question marks in Pavano and Wright.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

That was the old regime. To be honest, if the Mets didn't trade Kazmir and end up going further downhill from there, Pedro would still be a Red Sox, and Beltran probably would have gotten the Houston deal done.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Delgado might not be looking to switch leagues.The Orioles are going to make a big pitch for him.Delgado will hit 50 HR's in Camden.The Rangers could become players if they move Soriano to Houston.Texas would have the Soriano money to offer Delgado.The Rangers have been offering $9-10 million per for Delgado but shedding Soriano allows them to increase their offer

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Originally Posted by BeantownYankee

Wasn't it mentioned in this discussion that the mets don't over pay with prospects?

The discussion was specifically about the off-season moves of the yanks and mets. I certainly agree that the Kazmir trade was a bad one, quite possibly a disaster. But it's separate from what's gone on this winter.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Yesterday, Carlos Beltran called Carlos Delgado, the free-agent first baseman the Mets are still interested in. Beltran is a friend of Delgado's and a fellow Puerto Rican. The Mets need a first baseman and have continued their conversations withDavid Sloane, Delgado's agent.

David

I know what kind of pitcher Whitey was and kind of person he is. It makes me feel proud to be a Yankee. We're keeping this in the family. (On breaking Whitey's PS consecutive scoreless innings)

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Originally Posted by RhodyYanksFan

The Mets are and always will be the JV team in New York. I was born in 1980 and my first baseball memory is the 1986 Mets winning the World Series. By all purposes I should be a Mets fan because the Yankees stunk in the 80's. But I became a Yankee fan because they were the elder, more well-known team. The Mets have a huge inferiority complex and it is showing in this offseason.

The Yankees did not stink in the 80s. They had either the best or second best (to the Detroit Tigers) overall winning % in that decade. Their problem was not winning the division, except for 1981. The Mets owned NY after 1969 until the 76 season. For a Yankee fan, there was nothing more depressing than having to read about the Mets every day. I would hate to relive those days again.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

That's quite generous to the yanks. They finished 5th 3 times and 4th another. Over the full 10 years their record wasn't that bad, but doing that poorly that often stinks.

They were 854-708 for a 10 year % of .546. That hardly "stinks." My point was that their record was good almost every year, they just couldn't win the division. Had there been a wildcard team back then who knows what the 80s would have been like?

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Yesterday, Carlos Beltran called Carlos Delgado, the free-agent first baseman the Mets are still interested in. Beltran is a friend of Delgado's and a fellow Puerto Rican. The Mets need a first baseman and have continued their conversations withDavid Sloane, Delgado's agent.

Re: Is Delgado next for the Mets?

Delgado in Shea would make a lot of sense for the Mets, and definitely put them into contention. With Beltran, Cameron, and Wright, they have a reasonable batting order. Whether anything but small mammals that eat the eggs can defeat Atlanta I don't know. The Braves keep re-inventing themselves pretty well.